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The sensitivity of low flip angle RARE imaging
Author(s) -
Alsop David C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.1910370206
Subject(s) - flip angle , sensitivity (control systems) , flip , nuclear magnetic resonance , magnetic resonance imaging , materials science , medicine , chemistry , physics , radiology , apoptosis , biochemistry , electronic engineering , engineering
It is demonstrated that the stability of the Carr‐Purcell‐Mei‐boom‐Gill (CPMG) sequence reflects the existence of a steady state solution to the Bloch equations in the absence of T 2 and T 1 decay. The steady state theory is then used to evaluate the performance of low flip angle RARE imaging sequences with both constant and optimally varied refocusing flip angles. The theory is experimentally verified in phantoms and then optimized, single shot, low flip angle RARE is used to obtain artifact‐free images from the brain of a normal volunteer.